Quickie: Spore & DRM

Posted September 25th, 2008 by Josh H
Categories: Rants

I try to avoid hype whenever possible since it leads to irrational choices, but days before Spore was released I got caught up in the hype of the game all over again (previously I had gotten over it, lol). So I bought the game the day before release and downloaded my copy ahead of time [...]

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Review: Hauppauge HD PVR

Posted September 25th, 2008 by Josh H
Categories: Technology

So I’ve been so busy with work for the past several months that this little device from Hauppauge completely flew under my radar. I had been wanting a component video capture device for some time since my cable company of course prevents copying HD programming from the non-broadcast stations much to my dismay. (It actually [...]

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Advertising vs Anti-Competitive Tactics

Posted September 23rd, 2008 by Josh H
Categories: Microsoft

Sometimes there is a fine line between advertising a company’s products and servers and trying to be anti-competitive by spreading lies and using deceptive tactics.
Microsoft’s latest effort to combat the obvious threat presented by VMware’s virtualization products seems to cross the line in my opinion. Microsoft has setup a website at http://www.vmwarecostswaytoomuch.com/ and handed out [...]

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Windows: Life Without Walls?

Posted September 21st, 2008 by Josh H
Categories: Microsoft

Microsoft often misses the obvious, their new tag line is just the latest example. Windows: Life Without Walls … hmm ya know what? Without walls you cannot have Windows.
I’m not sure what they are talking about, sounds like pure crap, what do you think?
“The thing that gets us out of bed every day is the [...]

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The Force Unleashed: Official Game But Not Canon

Posted September 21st, 2008 by Josh H
Categories: Uncategorized

Quick question, in one of the prequel movies didn’t Yoda say that there is always just a master and an apprentice when it came to the Sith?
If so, how creative that the apprentice Darth Vadar get’s his own “secret” apprentice in the new video game.
Who was it a couple weeks ago that talked about George [...]

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I’m a PC …

Posted September 19th, 2008 by Josh H
Categories: Apple, Microsoft

… but only because I’m too poor to afford a tricked out Mac Pro.
I thought it might be fun to join the I’m a PC movement from Microsoft’s latest advertising campaign. Though in the spirit of full disclosure I had to be honest as to why I use a PC, lol. If I had the [...]

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Quickie: iTunes 8

Posted September 9th, 2008 by Josh H
Categories: Apple

What’s the feature I wanted to see in the new version of iTunes? If you said support for another calendaring software besides Microsoft Outlook you’d be right.
What’s missing from iTunes 8? Yep, you guessed it, support for another calendaring program besides Outlook.
iTunes update fail!

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MobileMe Revisited; A Letter to Steve Jobs

Posted August 18th, 2008 by Josh H
Categories: Dear Steve Jobs

Dear Steve,
I know I tend to rant a bunch and that I’ve already complained about this before, but why can’t I use Mozilla products with MobileMe on my Windows machine?
I just don’t understand it. Yes I have Outlook, but only because I didn’t know about Mozilla Sunbird up until the past couple months and then [...]

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Microsoft’s Mojave: Deceiving Common Folk to Prove Nothing

Posted August 1st, 2008 by Josh H
Categories: Microsoft, Windows

It occurs to me that the so called ‘ Mojave Experiment’ put on by Microsoft is little more then a campaign to showcase the stupidity of the user base they seek to appeal to.
Now those are harsh words I know, but it’s not a jab at the people in the commercials or featured in their [...]

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Quickie: Apple’s MobileMe, Firefox & iTunes 7.7 falls short

Posted July 10th, 2008 by Josh H
Categories: Apple, Firefox 2, iTunes

“On a PC, MobileMe works seamlessly with the applications you use every day. You can use Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Contacts on XP or Vista. MobileMe automatically pushes your email, contacts, and calendars — and even your Safari or Internet Explorer bookmarks — to your other computers, iPhone, and iPod touch.
” ~ bold words [...]

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Unecessary Products & Dog Owners are Saps

Posted July 10th, 2008 by Josh H
Categories: Rants

You know me, sometimes I just have to make comments when I see something retarded. Today I’ll be picking on Purina’s Beneful Prepared Meals dog food. First let me say I have a dog and he actually eats Beneful’s dry food, so it’s not like I dislike the brand or anything nor do I have [...]

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